A new study gives insight into how limb development evolved in vertebrates. The findings identify a gene that plays a central role in the evolution of limb development in vertebrates. By manipulating ...

University of Kentucky College of Medicine researchers were part of a new study that gives insight into how limb development evolved in vertebrates. The findings, published in Current Biology Oct. 4, ...

To shed light on the principles that govern tissue dynamics across species, RIKEN biologists have developed a new method for analyzing the development of vertebrate limbs. These principles could help ...

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Studying evolution by focusing solely on fossils would leave many questions unanswered, but evolutionary developmental biology (otherwise known as “evo-devo”) helps fill in the gaps. Evo-devo ...

Human fingers and toes do not grow outward; instead, they form from within a larger foundational bud, as intervening cells recede to reveal the digits beneath. This is among many processes captured ...

Scientists believe human limbs evolved from the gills of sharks - thanks to a gene named after Sonic the Hedgehog. The discovery comes from analysis of skate, a cartilaginous fish which has much in ...

Scientists use CRISPR to show how genes that control growth at the end of fish fins play the same role in fingers and toes. All vertebrates have the same basic body plan: head, spine, four appendages.

Perhaps like a limb with multiple digits? The team will also try reintroducing the genes in tetrapod species, which normally lack the genes, to see how they affect limb development. "We will continue ...